Kiu Ghesik wrote:Broader Confederate States wrote:Is it fundamental though? I mean... I just wanted to have a libertarian actually win an election for once in history
I think bretten was referring specifically to sexual self-inserts; I.e. making the character who just so happens to resemble you get laid all the time and be the hottest person in the story and have everyone they’re interested in falling over them and so on and so forth
In that light libertarian grandma definitely doesn’t count :}
No, I wasn't really. I should have put a paragraph break there, that's on me. The point I failed miserably to make is that I don't think there's ever going to be an NS character truly independent from its creator, though there's always exceptions like Konraniski, Sven Vasa, and Alastair to name a few. Self-inserts might just be inevitable here because we're all just bored nerds in a LARP collective and I think our subconscious blurs the lines sometimes as a form of unintentional escapism. They run the gamut from Northumbria/Sharifistan's one-dimensional Chad Thundercocks like Edmund and the caliphs Shar marries off three times a week to my guy Marco liking the same jazz artists I do, but they're there.
Or maybe I'm just a grumpy, cynical zoomer with not enough faith in y'all's creative ability, IDK.















